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The press has been overflowing with reports on exploding student debt, and the payday lending industry is under increasing public scrutiny. Let’s take this momentum and radicalize it!
Join Strike Debt Bay Area on Saturday, August 10th for our next Ideas Into Action meeting. We will be discussing our ongoing big action at the Berkeley Post Office, and planning continuations or followup actions.
Also
- student debt resistance in light of Congress’ horrible legislation to raise future student loan interest rates.
- Postal Banking
- national Strike Debt connections & media strategy
- putting the payday lenders out of business
- local resources
- next debtors’ union steps
Come join these efforts and bring your own ideas…
Solidarity.
You are not a loan
Strike Debt Bay Area
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: It doesn’t rain in Oakland in August or September.
If you would like to help us monetarily with our work. We don’t need much, but we do keep a phone hotline active and do flyers and posters. Any little bit helps.
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
We’ll be finishing up Marazzi’s violence book and adding the last chapter of Graeber’s Debt into the mix.
The Postscript to Ellen Brown’s Web of Debt will be added as a supplemental reading to get a diversity of ideas to debate. Will try to get it photocopied for those who don’t have a copy.
More info. Location map. The entrance is on 22nd St.
There is a racist war against Black & Brown youth! We’re organizing as part of a national call out for Justice for Trayvon Martin Assemblies all over the U.S. on Aug 28. Come out to plan an Oakland action to be led by youth and people of color.
National People’s Power Assemblies website
On July 31st after midnight the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to approve allocating $2 million to continue to develop the Domain Awareness Center that would integrate surveillance cameras from all over the Port of Oakland, the city, BART, AC Transit, traffic cameras, and other sensors into a local ‘fusion’ center that could effectively track private citizens movements throughout the region. Video and data feeds from all over Oakland are to be aggregated and monitored at the DAC, then analysed with license plate recognition software, thermal imaging and body movement recognition software, possibly facial recognition software, and more, all with absolutely no privacy or data-retention policies in place, or substantive debate at the committee or council level about the program.
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: It doesn’t rain in Oakland in August or September.
If you would like to help us monetarily with our work. We don’t need much, but we do keep a phone hotline active and do flyers and posters. Any little bit helps.
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Please join the Civil Liberties Committee of the SF 99% Coalition and the Unitarian Universalists for Peace-SF for a free workshop on NSA surveillance and what we can do about it.
Government surveillance affects our activism on many issues, but especially campaigns relating to US foreign policy and wars. It is unconstitutional, counter-productive to legitimate antiterrorism work, and an outrageous waste of our tax dollars. End the Surveillance State and Restore the 4th!
Goals for this fast-paced 2 hr workshop include: share info on actions already taken in response to NSA revelations; plan for coordinated, strategic actions; role play how to respond to the “I have nothing to hide so why should I worry” conversation; brainstorm and start to create handouts and other materials; sign on to a statement of support for Edward Snowden; prepare a joint calendar of actions and events for the fall.
Short presentations by attorneys and organizers on the NSA revelations, lawsuits, and organizing methods will be followed by breakout groups around specific demands and actions, including plans for the ongoing August congressional recess.
Confirmed speakers include National Lawyers Guild attorney Sharon Adams (also of the Coalition for a Safe Berkeley) and attorney Joe Nicholson. Please come with your ideas, a folder for written materials, and your commitment to our constitutional rights. Note: laptops are welcome but there is no Wi-Fi available. RSVP to: sf99percent@gmail.com
Come help plan and organize this big day in Oakland and called-for protests across the country.
Facebook event for August 28th
STOP THE WAR ON YOUTH OF COLOR
JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON MARTIN –
JAIL ZIMMERMAN!
OVERTURN ‘STAND YOUR GROUND’ LAWS!
End the murder of Black & Brown youth
JOBS & EDUCATION
NOT MASS INCARCERATION!
Support California Prisoners’ Hunger Strike
END RACIAL PROFILING OF ALL FORMS!
Including Stop-and-Frisk!
STOP RACIST POLICE TERROR
Drug test killer cops
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NOW
STOP DEPORTATIONS!
Stop Urban Shield & surveillance of our communities
A LIVING WAGE & UNION RIGHTS
FOR LOW-WAGE & ALL WORKERS!
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: It doesn’t rain in Oakland in August or September.
If you would like to help us monetarily with our work. We don’t need much, but we do keep a phone hotline active and do flyers and posters. Any little bit helps.
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Come help plan and organize this big day in Oakland and called-for protests across the country.
After this last organizing meeting there will be a banner and sign making jamboree!
Facebook event for August 28th
STOP THE WAR ON YOUTH OF COLOR
JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON MARTIN –
JAIL ZIMMERMAN!
OVERTURN ‘STAND YOUR GROUND’ LAWS!
End the murder of Black & Brown youth
JOBS & EDUCATION
NOT MASS INCARCERATION!
Support California Prisoners’ Hunger Strike
END RACIAL PROFILING OF ALL FORMS!
Including Stop-and-Frisk!
STOP RACIST POLICE TERROR
Drug test killer cops
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NOW
STOP DEPORTATIONS!
Stop Urban Shield & surveillance of our communities
A LIVING WAGE & UNION RIGHTS
FOR LOW-WAGE & ALL WORKERS!
We’ve been discussing theories of money and our debt crisis lately, and Brown is a backer of the public bank option. It will be interesting to see where she connects and/or clashes with other theories of Capitalism and Debt. See you there!
(Entrance is on 22nd St, just off Broadway. Ring bell (not intercom!) to left)
During the 2012 Mayday protests in Oakland, the OPD switched up it’s normal crowd control tactics and sent in ‘snatch squads’ to remove people who they perceived to be planning unlawful actions. Without any warning, groups of officers marched in formation directly through the crowd in search of their targets. Prince was one of the activists to be targeted and arrested early in the day. More than three officers assaulted Prince, before one used their tazer to bring him down. It’s more than clear that there was no reason for any of these arrests to be made, as no illegal activity (on the part of the protesters) was taking place. Prince was held for 72 hours, brutalized, and released with no charges. The DA quietly filed charges later, and issued a warrant for his arrest.
Two of the officers involved in Prince’s brutal arrest on MayDay have been identified as Officer Fukuda and Officer W. Burke. Officer Burke was seen on Mayday, multiple times, pointing his rifle at people in the crowd, and waving it around carelessly. Officer Burke was also fired at one point, for falsifying search warrants, but was rehired in arbitration.
Lets show support for our comrade in the face of outrageous charges.
On July 31st after midnight the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to approve allocating $2 million to continue to develop the Domain Awareness Center that would integrate surveillance cameras from all over the Port of Oakland, the city, BART, AC Transit, traffic cameras, and other sensors into a local ‘fusion’ center that could effectively track private citizens movements throughout the region. Video and data feeds from all over Oakland are to be aggregated and monitored at the DAC, then analysed with license plate recognition software, thermal imaging and body movement recognition software, possibly facial recognition software, and more, all with absolutely no privacy or data-retention policies in place, or substantive debate at the committee or council level about the program.
The press has been overflowing with reports on exploding student debt, and the payday lending industry is under increasing public scrutiny. Strike Debt Bay Area has OCCUPIED THE BERKELEY POST OFFICE to oppose privatization in coalition with Berkeley activists, and City College of San Francisco is under attack by privatizers.
Join Strike Debt Bay Area on Saturday, August 31th for our next Ideas Into Action meeting. We will be discussing our ongoing big action at the Berkeley Post Office, and planning continuations or followup actions.
Also
- student debt resistance in light of Congress’ horrible legislation to raise future student loan interest rates.
- Postal Banking
- national Strike Debt connections & media strategy
- putting the payday lenders out of business
- next debtors’ union steps
Come join these efforts and bring your own ideas…
Solidarity.
You are not a loan
Strike Debt Bay Area